Plant Picrasma quassioides (Simaroubaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Lignum Quassia; Nigaki; Shurni

How this plant is used

Medicinal

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
NIGAKILACTONE-M,N,H,J,K,L	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIGAKINONE	0	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PALMITIC-ACID	13	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PETROSELINIC-ACID	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PICRASIDINES	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PICRASIN	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
PICRASIN-A,B,C,D,E,F,G	0	Wood	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUASSIN	5	Wood	not available	500.0	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
5-Alpha-Reductase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Amebicide	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antialopecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiandrogenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrinolytic	1	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antioxidant	1	Duke, 1992 *
Apertif	1	Duke, 1992 *
Emetic	1	Oriental Materia Medica (three volumes by Dr. Hsu and collaborators)
FLavor	1	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Hemolytic	1	Bisset, N.G., ed. 1994. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 566 pp.
Hypercholesterolemic	1	Spiller, G. A. 1996 (Spiller, G. A. Ed. 1996. CRC Handbook of Lipids in Human Nutrition. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL. 233 pp.)
Insecticide	1	Grenand, P., Moretti, C., and Jacquemin, H. 1987. Pharmacopees Traditionnelles en Guyane. l'ORSTROM, Paris. 569 pp.
Lubricant	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Nematicide	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Pesticide	2	Duke, 1992 *
Propecic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Soap	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.